Git Clone: Usage & Examples

The usage method of the git clone command is as follows:

git clone <repository_url>

The is the URL address of the remote repository to be cloned. Executing this command will copy the code of the remote repository entirely to the local machine, including all commit history, branches, and tags. By default, the git clone command will create a folder with the same name as the remote repository in the current directory and clone the code into that folder.

To clone a remote repository into a specific folder, you can add a target directory parameter at the end of the command.

git clone <repository_url> <target_directory>

for example

git clone https://github.com/example/my-repo.git my-repo

This will clone the my-repo repository into a folder named my-repo in the current directory.